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="I Have a Dream"=

§ Frame Questions
1.  Understand Main Ideas of //I Have a Dream// 2.  Why a check? 3.  Understand purpose of different rhetorical devices and appeals 

§ Backgroun d
Martin Luther King Jr. was born January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia to Martin Luther King Sr. and Alberta Williams King. He never officially graduated highschool but entered college at fifteen and got a degree in sociology and later went to Seminary school and got a degree in divinity. His major influences were Howard Thurman a civil rights leader that had gone to school with King's father. Thurman taught King about Gahndi's work. King was very inspired by Gahndi's sucess with non violent activism and followed his example. In 1959 King visited Gahndi in India and learned from him. During the time of the civil rights movement King's mentor was a civil rights activist Bayard Rustin. King was part of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and did alot of work with them including protests and demonstrations. King's mentor Baard Rustin was actually the one who organized the Marxh on Washington which took place August 28, 1963. It represented a coalation of many civ il rights organizations including the "Big Six" : CORE, SCLC, SNCC, NAACP, National Urban League, and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. President JFK originally oppossed the March but they would not back down. The March was a coming together of people who wanted equality and peace.